Thursday, September 15, 2011

Latest baby pics

We got to go see our baby in a 3D ultrasound this afternoon, and that was a lot of fun. It's amazing how much bigger he is now than he was for the last couple of ultrasounds. This short video clip shows the circulation of the blood going through his heart.



Unfortunately, tech wasn't able to get any other video clips because the baby wasn't being very cooperative. Still, we at least got some fun profile shots.

Here you can see the profile of his face and his cute left chubby cheek. There on the right side of the picture is his left arm reaching up over his head, and his right arm, umbilical cord, and right leg are blocking the view of the front of his face.


Hi, Mom and Dad! He was determined to show us every angle of his hands and keep everything else covered up.

Image of the heartbeat, measuring a good and steady 144 beats per minute. The colors on the photo are like the ones in the video clip, just showing the circulation of the blood through the heart.

Sucking on his hand as we try to get him angled for the 3D shots.


Good strong leg bones getting ready for another kick


Brain activity. Once again the colors are showing the circulation of blood through the brain.

Here's another profile shot, though he's turned his head even further away from us. Notice that he's sticking out his tongue in this one.

I think the part that made me laugh the hardest during this experience was when he not only had both arms and hands, a length of umbilical cord, and his leg and foot all covering his face. For at least a few seconds we even got to see him playing with the umbilical cord with his toes. With toes like that he must be related to me, the little monkey!

-Amy

Family photo shoot


One of our friends was wanting to practice her photography skills and asked us to do a maternity photo shoot. We went to a lovely place about 5 miles away from our house called Kubota Gardens. If you live anywhere near the Seattle area, I'd recommend you take some time to go check it out.


We thought this would be a good opportunity to get some family pictures as well as get some good belly shots. We usually do a couple's shoot sometime near the end of the year for our Christmas pictures, but we're assuming that this Christmas we'll be a little too distracted to think about it.



Thanks again, Kelly for an enjoyable time taking pictures and walking around the Japanese gardens.

-Amy